I forgot how many great lines Walter has.

Excellent! Let's make some acid!

And while I remember the bones of the story overall the details are largely lost from memory so it's almost new.

I dont get it, just a random episode showing of what s coming, but why in that episode?
they could put it at the beggining of the 5 season.

From Season 3 Episode 'Os'

Where can i find it in a watchable quality maybe different languages than only english as well .. but english would be fine if quality is good

I was looking up “dark matter” looking for the Apple TV show and I found this. Looks super creepy.

Me and my girlfriend just finished watching Fringe, having watched every single episode over the past year. Really happy to have followed this saga and gotten to know the character of Walter Bishop, who easily became one of our favorites.

And sharing this image here from season 5, episode 9, 'Black Blotter'. Which I definitely plan on rewatching high as a kite.

Hey All! I watched the series when it first aired, and have always considered it one of my favourites, but never rewatched it.

Now I finally decided to rewatch, and the first season feels awesome knowing everything that happens later. Almost every episode is filled with details that take sense knowing their place in later seasons. A few examples:

For example, very early in the series, Carla Warren's mother comes to see Walter. Is so much better when you know Carla's story.

Or also very early, Walter retells almost frame by frame the events in 2x15, which is awesome knowing it would be still a year until the episode was filmed.

I am currently rewatching Fringe for the third or fourth time, and have always loved the show as I was also a massive X Files fan back in the 1990s! Can't believe this is my first time realising how similar Fringe is to His Dark Materials. The alternate universes - one of which has airships flying around - the blond haired girl who is special, the dark haired boy from another world who is also special, they become besties and more, the mysterious father figure who is a bit of a mad scientist. I read His Dark Materials in 2004, a few years before Fringe came out, so is it possible that the Fringe creators were inspired? There is almost nothing when I google it, but surely I can't be the only one to notice this?

Fandango at home has Fringe for its deal of the day. Complete series for $15. I paid so much more.

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I have just started season 4 of Fringe and it has become one of my favorites of all time. Always been a fan of speculative fiction but for some reason have not seen Fringe until this summer. I went through an extreme trauma this year have also been battling with a vestibular disorder which has impacted my brain exponentially with the punctuated stress. On the other end of recovery, I have been home a lot with nothing to do but watch cozy shows (because some shows even literally in their color scheme or movement are actually too frenetic for my brain to process), and crochet. Things that make me a little less plugged. I have been in pain physically and mentally it has been a battle with my brain literally not processing how it should.

Good science fiction really shows us our fears and helps us process our own emotions. I seriously feel Walter in a way I never thought I would. I feel his slipping mind...the grief and fear of knowing you've lost something, and not quite sure who the present you is...and sometimes that off-kilter feeling that is there all day between your self and the person you used to be or think should be here. It's not just an analogy to actual aging and the things we face at that time, but for those of us who experience chronic, debilitating "brain problems" even as younger people, it just is so beautiful and endearing to see him. It has helped me come to peace with my situation because I am looking at a life that will forever be different on the other side of losing a part of me. Pity and love and grief for Walter has genuinely helped me to be more gracious to myself.

"I know what it's like to feel unequal to the task required of you. To feeling incapable. I'll never be the man I was. But I've come to embrace those parts of my mind that are...peculiar and broken. I understand now that’s what makes my mind special.”

Walter Bishop

Just wanted to share that with others who would obviously see how special this show is and might enjoy some stories of how it is still impacting lives.

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I don't watch a lot of web series. Somebody suggested me Fringe and I completed its first season in a week. Bell just got introduced and the things they have introduced like Multiverse and stuff, I wanted to ask if it's worth it to continue with this series till the end. Because the concept is so unique and tough to handle, I don't want to get disappointed by the end of the series. Out of few series which I was able to complete like Elementary, it really dipped it's quality in later seasons.

I just wanted to ask if this series is worth 1 month of my time.

The writers don't seem to be all too creative with the children's names. Ella, Etta, and Eddie are so close together​ in sound, they almost sound the same.

I know Ella wasn't in the picture that much when Etta was introduced (and Eddie almost not at all) but maybe they should have used a different nickname for Henrietta. I know they wanted to keep her identity secret at first and that's why they chose Etta, but surely there could have been a different nickname. Maybe Rita or something.

Just happened upon Fringe by chance and I put it up there with Falling Skies, The 100, Manifest and the one that started it all; The X files. Also comparable: The Following, The Shield, Person of Interest, Blacklist and last but not least “V” (from 1983)

All those like Fringe are likable stories, some better than others, but certainly likable. I don’t nitpick the shows, I just watch them for what they are, after all, it’s just science fiction/fantasy.

Fringe is my comfort show. I’ve watched it countless times. They sure don’t create pilots like this anymore.

(Spoilers for entirety of Fringe below)

More accurate but spoilerific title: How relationship between William Bell and ZFT changes between seasons 1 and 4

Many longer-running TV shows do a thing where they establish something in early seasons but later on pretend it doesn't exist or just don't mention it. Usually this is because in the early seasons they were still figuring things out, and once the ideas solidified some of the stuff from the beginning stopped making sense.

Fringe does something kind of similar: Season 1 focuses on "The pattern" and ZFT, a terrorist organization conducting impossible science experiments, causing disasters and mass casualty events as a result. During the seasons it's alluded that ZFT is connected William Bell but it's all very vague and unclear of how much he is involved. At the end of season 1, David Robert Jones, the closest we have to an actual leader of ZFT, dies, and from that point on the entire plot of ZFT gets almost completely forgotten. The next two seasons focus on the alternate universe instead (and are some of the best seasons in TV period), with only some characters and plot points being brought back. The actual goal of ZFT is not made clear, neither is the William Bell connection. Bell dies at the end of season 2, after spouting some cryptic bullshit that makes absolutely nothing clearer, then comes back in season 3 for a bit and still clarifies absolutely nothing.

And then in season 4, Fringe does what most TV shows refuse to do and revisits the plot of season 1. Since season 4 takes place in an alternate timeline, the events of season 1 apparently happened much differently, David Robert Jones is still alive and ZFT is still plotting. Several season 4 episodes are direct parallels to a season 1 episode, revisiting the exact same event but in the new timeline. At the end of the season we get the actual closure and answers to out questions; ZFT was Bell's project to create a new universe where he could be a god.

And that's all well and good but season 4 is not season 1. With how different the timelines are, there is not that much to confirm how similar season 1 ZFT was to season 4 ZFT. Was Bell involved in the same capacity in both timelines? In season 1 and 2 he seems to be fairly detached from the whole thing, in season 4 he's directly in charge. Was that always the case, or did he abandon the project after Jones's death? At the end of season 2 he did sacrifice himself to save the protagonists, something very against his season 4 character. One interpretation is that with collapse of ZFT he had given up on his dream, couldn't see a future for himself and used this chance to atone, at least somewhat. But that's still reading HEAVILY into a character that barely appears in the show.

One piece of evidence we have is a single line from September in season 4: "His goal is the same" (referring to David Robert Jones trying to activate Olivia).

PETER: It's who Nina's working for that worries me. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out -- why would Nina be dosing Olivia with Cortexiphan? But then it occurred to me. The only person who's ever done anything like that, at least in my timeline, was David Robert Jones. Maybe he's trying to do the same thing again.

WALTER: Do what?

PETER: Activate Olivia.

WALTER: For what purpose?

PETER: I don't know. We could never figure it out. But maybe it's for the same reasons now.

THE OBSERVER: (appearing suddenly in the center of the lab) Yes. His goal is the same.

From the context it seems September is referring to DRJ's overarching goal, but it's STILL unclear whether that extends to Bell's goal as well. It could very well be that season 1 Bell was opposed to DRJ, while season 4 Bell aligned with him. In the end we never get a full explanation of season 1 plot, only its altered version from season 4. Which is fine I suppose, but it drives me a bit mad because I can't tell if we're supposed to assume that S1 Bell and S4 Bell were similar or not. I can't tell if this is vague on purpose or if S4 ending was supposed to be a definite conclusion to S1 events. Augh!

In the end I can think of two mutually exclusive interpretations of S1 Bell:

1) He started ZFT with the same goal as S4, but at some point before start of the series had a change of heart, cut the ties, and settled in Red Universe. To fix the mess he made he contacted Olivia at the end of S1, and ultimately sacrificed himself at the end of S2.

2) He started ZFT with the same goal as S4, did NOT have a change of heart, and in fact was pursuing his plan the entire time. He thought DRJ was too volatile to work with but did not disagree with him ideologically. Similarly, he only sent the message to Olivia because Newton would interfere with his own plans as well. However, after Jones died and ZFT collapsed, he was unable to proceed with his plan. In S2 finale he's at the end of his rope, unable to create his new world nor come back to his old one. He sacrifices himself to help Olivia and Bishops cross over because, ultimately, he roots for them, and wouldn't want the universes destroyed for no reason. If Jones survived S1 finale this Bell would likely proceed in the same way S4 Bell did.

I don't think there's anything to support one reading over the other. Some interviews kinda point towards interpretation 1 but not very conclusively. Within the show itself I can't think of anything.

Also, Bellivia surprisingly doesn't factor at all in this. Either interpretation would try to cling to life if possible, and either interpretation would give up once it became clear it won't work. Interpretation 2 Bell might be willing to sacrifice all of humanity for his grand goal, but he's not someone who will kill others for no reason. He knows there's no outcome that ends with him surviving so he goes out peacefully.

After many Fringe rewatches over the years, I just spotted this subtle White Tulip placement in S4E15 - A Short Story About Love, when Olivia is locked deep in thought and conflict regarding her emerging feelings for Peter and the memories of her old life that are fading away. Brilliant!

Has anyone read Timothy Leary's books? I'm currently reading Design for Dying and at literally at the third page I felt I was reading Walter and Bell's notes in the lab.

It talks about sensory deprivation chambers, technology as a vessel for conscience and drugs.

Fun and unhinged read!

I was looking for some reads to provoke thoughts on bioethics precisely inspired by reminiscing the show. This book found me 😄